Michigan in the News

In a USA Today article about divorced older men who remarry and start new families, Cassandra Dorius, research fellow and research investigator at the Population Studies Center, said, "There's a lot of social acceptance for the idea of moving on."

The Toronto Sun and other media quoted Marta Volonteri, associate professor of astronomy, about a study she co-authored that looked at super massive black holes using imaging from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.

Speaking about a new FDA warning for the diabetes drug Actos, Dr. Lee Green, professor of family medicine, told MedPage Today that the larger message should not be about which drugs are used to treat diabetes, "but about the ultimate foolishness of trying to fix the problem with drugs. As long as we keep supersizing ourselves, eating too much and moving too little, we'll have this problem."

As it gears up for the World Solar Challenge this October, the U-M Solar Car Team recently took Quantum out for its first test drive on public roads. Click the photo to watch the solar car zipping along city streets and country roads, and click here to read more about the test. Click here to see Mark Fields, executive vice president of Ford Motor Co., discuss the company's relationship with the Solar Car Team and the benefit that Ford receives from it.

Regents issue statement regarding GSRA resolution On behalf of members of the Board of Regents, newly appointed Chair Denise Ilitch offered a statement Thursday on the board's action of the previous month regarding graduate student research assistants. The board voted 6-2 May 19 to support the rights of GSRAs to choose whether to proceed toward a representation election.

Demolition will make way for patient parking, new entrance to the Kellogg Eye CenterThe Parkview Medical Center and the Scott and Amy Prudden Turner Memorial Clinic buildings, which housed eye clinics and operating rooms for the Department of Ophthalmology — and eventually the W.K. Kellogg Eye Center — for more than 30 years, will be demolished to allow for additional patient parking and a new entrance to the eye center southeast of the Kellogg complex.

Regents name new chair and vice chair, approve construction projectsRegent Denise Ilitch will serve as the next chair of the Board of Regents for a one-year term beginning July 1. Regent Laurence Deitch was named vice chair when the appointments were announced Thursday at the board’s monthly meeting. Meanwhile, regents also approved construction work at the Institute for Social Research, the Medical Science II building and University Hospital's patient food kitchen.

The Michigan Difference

Linguist at large
The Vepsians of northern Russia number just more than 8,000, but only 6,000 of them speak the native language. Of the remaining speakers, most are more than 50 years old. As part of her honors thesis, LSA senior Bryn Hauk worked to document and preserve this endangered language.